Category: ITnews

Vic councils' after-hours call answering service breached
22
Apr
2024

Vic councils’ after-hours call answering service breached – Security

Several Victorian councils are working to establish their exposure after an after-hours call centre operator was breached. The provider, OracleCMS,…

X calls takedown orders over Sydney stabbing video
22
Apr
2024

X calls takedown orders over Sydney stabbing video “unlawful” – Software

X has flouted orders to remove footage of a stabbing at a church in Sydney’s south west last week, saying…

Powerlink Queensland isn't giving M365 Copilot to all staff at once
22
Apr
2024

Powerlink Queensland isn’t giving M365 Copilot to all staff at once – Software

Powerlink Queensland is offering staff access to M365 Copilot upon request and then on a ‘use it or lose it’…

FBI says Chinese hackers preparing to attack US infrastructure
22
Apr
2024

FBI says Chinese hackers preparing to attack US infrastructure – Security

Chinese government-linked hackers have burrowed into US critical infrastructure and are waiting “for just the right moment to deal a…

Google consolidates its DeepMind and Research teams
19
Apr
2024

Google consolidates its DeepMind and Research teams – Software

Google will consolidate teams that focus on building artificial intelligence models across its Research and DeepMind divisions in its latest…

First law protecting consumers' brainwaves signed in US
19
Apr
2024

First law protecting consumers’ brainwaves signed in US – Storage

Colorado governor Jared Polis has signed into law the first measure passed in the US that aims to protect the…

Google terminates 28 employees for protest of Israeli cloud contract
19
Apr
2024

Google terminates 28 employees for protest of Israeli cloud contract – Cloud

Google has terminated 28 employees after some staff participated in protests against the company’s cloud contract with the Israeli government….

IAG gravitates to more SaaS-based applications
19
Apr
2024

IAG gravitates to more SaaS-based applications – Finance – Cloud

Insurer IAG is set to convert more of its application estate to software-as-a-service, favouring that over having applications that are…

Barbeques Galore starts work on AI roadmap
18
Apr
2024

Barbeques Galore starts work on AI roadmap – Software

Barbeques Galore is working to lay data foundations and identify “priority areas” for AI use across its business, formalising its…

Five Australians arrested in global raid on phishing kit seller LabHost
18
Apr
2024

Five Australians arrested in global raid on phishing kit seller LabHost – Security

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has arrested five men as part of a global raid on a cyber-criminal gang linked…

Microsoft-OpenAI deal set to dodge formal EU merger probe
18
Apr
2024

Microsoft-OpenAI deal set to dodge formal EU merger probe – Software

EU antitrust regulators have concluded that Microsoft’s US$13 billion ($20 billion) investment into OpenAI is not an acquisition, sources familiar…

Australian Federal Police to 'transform' SAP ERP
18
Apr
2024

Australian Federal Police to ‘transform’ SAP ERP – Software

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is looking to replace its core enterprise resource planning platform within the next three years….